Open-air photo exhibit in Geneva has started

Discover and enjoy the spectacular open-air exhibition jointly organized by the Red Sea Transnational Center and the Diplomatic Club of Geneva on the shores of Lake Geneva until September 3, 2024.

From the Gulf of Tadjourah to the Seven Brothers archipelago in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, the 90 pictures displayed on 30 two-meter-high double-face panels offer a rare opportunity to almost literally dive into the heart of the scientific missions and educational workshops carried out in Djibouti in 2022 and 2023 by the TRSC and its Djiboutian and Sudanese partners, namely The Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the University of Djibouti and the Centre d'Etude et de Recherche de Djibouti (CERD), and the Red Sea University in Port Sudan.

The exhibition highlights the spirit and fieldwork of a unique Swiss initiative bridging science and diplomacy to promote a regional approach to the preservation of coral reefs that have demonstrated an exceptional resistance to climate change. These Red Sea “Reefs of Hope” are a de facto unique chance for at least one major coral ecosystem to survive for future generations, in a context where corals are disappearing at a dramatic rate elsewhere in the world due to global warming. In this way, the exhibition bears witness to a formidable human adventure, at the crossroads of the scientific, environmental, economic, and geopolitical challenges of our time.

The exhibition features the work of photographers Ulrika Larsson and Lukasz Larsson Warzecha (www.lwimages.com), who covered the 2023 educational workshop and the 2023 mission in the Seven Brothers islands for the TRSC. It is complemented by photos taken by TRSC Scientific Director Dr Guilhem Banc-Prandi during the 2022 mission to the Gulf of Tadjourah.

Thanks to the Ville de Genève, the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation and the H. Dudley Wright Foundation for their support, as well as the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.